Awards

• Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Picture Book) 2008
• Short-listed for Buckaroo Book Award 2009
• Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Picture Book) 2010

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Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. --<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></p> Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. --<i>Starred, School Library Journal</i></p> The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . . Pratt's paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling's story. --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p> The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. --<i>Booklist</i></p> This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again that author and illustrator are brilliantly simpatico. --<i>Starred, Publishers Weekly</i></p> Jenkins . . . spins the tale nicely. --<i>Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</i></p>

Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. --The Wall Street Journal Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. --Starred, School Library Journal The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . . Pratt's paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling's story. --Kirkus Reviews The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. --Booklist This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again that author and illustrator are brilliantly simpatico. --Starred, Publishers Weekly Jenkins . . . spins the tale nicely. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. &#8212;The Wall Street Journal &nbsp; Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. &#8212;Starred, School Library Journal &nbsp; The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . .&nbsp; Pratt&#8217;s paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling&#8217;s story. &#8212;Kirkus Reviews &nbsp; The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. &#8212;Booklist &nbsp; This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again t

Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. --The Wall Street Journal Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. --Starred, School Library Journal The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . . Pratt's paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling's story. --Kirkus Reviews The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. --Booklist This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again that author and illustrator are brilliantly simpatico. --S

Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. --The Wall Street Journal Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. --Starred, School Library Journal The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . . Pratt's paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling's story. --Kirkus Reviews The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. --Booklist This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again that author and illustrator are brilliantly simpatico. --Starred, Publishers Weekly Jenkins . . . spins the tale nicely. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Pierre Pratt's pictures of the befuddled, oblivious Dumpling are utterly endearing. --The Wall Street Journal Children will instantly relate...Important themes of loneliness, tolerance, friendship, and family emerge from this funny story. It will enrich storytime and linger long in the minds of young readers and listeners. --Starred, School Library Journal The relatively long story has a strong narrative voice with rich language . . Pratt's paintings use bold strokes and deep hues against the background of brilliant green grass, with blurry shadows adding a dreamlike quality to Dumpling's story. --Kirkus Reviews The lessons about loneliness and the, well, dogged pursuit of companionship are charmingly realized without any heavy-handedness, and young listeners are sure to enjoy the humor in clueless Dumpling's smelly predicament. --Booklist This newest dog-driven story from Jenkins and Pratt proves again that author and illustrator are brilliantly simpatico. --Starred, Publishers Weekly Jenkins . . . spins the tale nicely. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Author Information

EMILY JENKINS, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and PIERRE PRATT, a Hans Christian Andersen Award nominee who lives in Montreal, Quebec, previously chronicled the doggy escapades of FudgeFudge and Marshmallow in That New Animal, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

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